Hilary Hahn was flawless, the floral arrangements beautiful, and the French 75 cocktails were custom made. But the SF ...

Dolly Parton, the songwriter, performer and businesswoman who turned a Smoky Mountain childhood into one of the most durable careers in American popular music, has died in her home in Nashville. She ...

I never met Clint Reilly, but knew him vaguely as that person who fired me. It was 2021, and he had just acquired the SF Examiner and SF Weekly. Through his proxies, Reilly shuttered the Weekly, then ...

San Francisco just got a new trail: a roughly 13-mile route that starts at Crissy Field, hugs the bay, bends south along the entire oceanfront, and finishes out at Fort Funston, collecting a dozen ...

"There is no San Francisco without the LGBTQ+ community." The speech was, by most accounts, a polite one. Daniel Lurie had come to the Hyatt Regency on the Embarcadero for the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ ...

The Mill, the Divisadero Street café and bakery that somehow came to stand for an entire era of San Francisco, is closed indefinitely after a fire ripped through the back of the building early Monday ...

We've added this article to our What It's Like series, where we at The Bold Italic tell you what a place in San Francisco is actually like. Based on our own experiences and those of our readers. There ...

I'd like to tell you I spent Friday night doing something cultured. Instead I spent it watching a livestream of a dozen men in hard hats assemble scaffolding, very slowly, in front of a building ...

San Francisco did not invent the cocktail, but we have spent roughly 175 years acting like we did. The pisco punch was born here. The martini, depending on which barstool historian you trust, was born ...

San Francisco is not an ice cream town the way a place with an actual summer is an ice cream town. We eat it anyway: in the fog, in a fleece. Then we get our four real days of heat in February and ...

I have a party trick: Someone mentions a restaurant, and I tell them which celebrity loves it. "You know Adele likes Zazie!" I will say whenever brings up the Cole Valley spot. It is not a good party ...

Elim Chan is 39, she trains with a boxing coach, and as of this morning she is the next music director of the San Francisco Symphony, beginning in 2027. She is the 13th person to hold the job in the ...